V-Ray

V-Ray is a commercial rendering plug-in for 3D computer graphics software applications. It is developed by Chaos Group (Bulgarian: Група Хаос), a Bulgarian company based in Sofia, Bulgaria, established in 1997. V-Ray is used in media, entertainment, and design industries such as film and video game production, industrial design,product design and architecture.^[1] The company chief architects are Peter Mitev and Vladimir Koilazov.

Overview[edit]

V-Ray is a rendering engine that uses advanced techniques, for example global illumination algorithms such as path tracing, photon mapping, irradiance maps and directly computed global illumination. The use of these techniques often makes it preferable to conventional renderers which are provided standard with 3d software, and generally renders using these technique can appear more photo-realistic, as actual lighting effects are more realistically emulated.

The desktop 3D applications that are supported by V-Ray are:

• 3ds Max
• Cinema 4D
• Maya
• Modo
• Nuke
• Rhinoceros
• SketchUp
• Softimage
• Blender

Academic and stand-alone versions of V-Ray are also available.